Numeracy

Discover how ACER is monitoring and helping improve learners’ ability to access, use, interpret and communicate mathematical information and ideas.

25 Jun 2025

21st century skills

Top teen mathematicians raise the sports bar in IM2C

Australia lifts performance in Year 4 maths and science – but system equity and engagement challenges remain

How students performed in PISA’s 8 essential maths skills

Maths strengths and struggles identified in new PISA report

Unlocking the power of learning assessments: A path to stronger foundational literacy and numeracy in the Asia-Pacific

Confidence, gender and mathematics in PISA

New analysis of data from the world's largest student assessment explores differences in how confident and positive Australian boys and girls feel about maths.

Year 4 results in global maths and science test the best ever

Year 4 students hit new high in global assessment, despite pandemic

Addressing the data and education gap in Timor-Leste

16 Sep 2024

From theory to reality: students witness the next level of problem solving

Experts advancing solutions for real world problems have been sharing their knowledge with Australia’s teenage top scorers in the International Mathematical Modeling Challenge (IM2C).

20 Aug 2024

Project-based learning in the 21st century classroom

ACER India provided technical support to the Sri Aurobindo Society to strengthen its Auro Project-Based Learning Initiative.

3 Jun 2024

Winners of the inaugural ACER Advance Awards for Schools

More than 900 Literacy and Numeracy competition entries were completed by students around Australia in Term 4 2023 and Term 1 2024.

21 May 2024

New PISA report links student experiences with performance in maths

Australian teenagers with higher levels of curiosity than others performed better in mathematics in the world’s largest assessment of 15-year-old students, a new report has shown.

21 May 2024

PISA reveals student experiences that help – and derail – maths performance

Teenagers in every Australian state and territory experienced disruptive maths classrooms and bullying at greater levels than the OECD average, a new report on student experiences shows.

16 May 2024

Using maths modelling to stop pet abandonment

Two Australian school teams will represent Australia in this year’s International Mathematical Modeling Challenge (IM2C), thanks to their approach to finding a solution for the post-pandemic trend of abandoning pets.

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